tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post1313454288496392311..comments2024-03-12T19:34:23.734-04:00Comments on Everyday with dan...: Not a hobby, but an interestdanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10088260285661911833noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post-73575662209186340562014-09-22T23:22:28.898-04:002014-09-22T23:22:28.898-04:00Remember your vocation. You are husband, father, g...Remember your vocation. You are husband, father, grandfather, neighbor, co-worker, citizen, friend. You may not know it now but your labor is not in vain. Bloom where you are planted...you are a sermon in shoes. Pastor Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09063075847474862992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post-54483127750094531092014-09-19T13:09:33.035-04:002014-09-19T13:09:33.035-04:00This goes back a ways, but if memory serves I came...This goes back a ways, but if memory serves I came across the idea of "the beginner's mind" in the book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." In a nutshell: approaching a task as if for the first time. To stop already knowing all about it. At work, what difference in quality -- whether I think I'm good at it or bad at it -- if I'm already knowing all about it I'm missing the experience.Pete Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942014442511382254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post-22227801391401911892014-09-19T09:29:48.238-04:002014-09-19T09:29:48.238-04:00I think this malaise is a part of the healing proc...I think this malaise is a part of the healing process. You are too low down on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to do hobbies or have interests for the moment. I'm confident those will return in time. For now, you are battered and bruised.bill Sloathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13102811572106761198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18283131.post-25553618580618484722014-09-19T08:31:41.143-04:002014-09-19T08:31:41.143-04:00I think I can quote my forlorn blog w/o looking: &...I think I can quote my forlorn blog w/o looking: "I have a been-there, done-that attitude about places I have NOT been and things I have NOT done." I think I even used the term "world-weary". Then I decided doing nothing was a super power..haha. I consider it practice for when I retire, being good company for yourself.<br /><br />Considering retirement did give me an idea, though. My neighbors are constantly on the go. They don't have lunch at any old place, they go to a little diner nobody knows about in the middle of nowhere, and they have a whole list of them. I told them I'm going to get that list from them someday and start hitting them systematically. Then there's this list of places people have told me I should go that I never get to, like the collectables place you mentioned to me. I keep meaning to just plunger my GPS to the windshield and drive somewhere. At the point where I'm Thoreau-ly lost in nature(haha, nerd literature joke) I'll tap "Go Home" and follow the line.<br /><br />I think it was about that time that I made the distinction between what *I* think would be cool, and what would be cool to tell other people about. Again I used the acid test: "if I couldn't tell anyone I did it, would I still do it?" Of course, doing things and imparting them to others makes us healthy members of society. I must not have been interested in that, though.<br /><br />I think desensitization is inevitable as you get older, since, no matter what it is you behold, it must filter through your five senses. But I don't know that it's necessarily a bad thing--maybe it brings focus, and makes us concentrate on ourselves, the interpreters of the data coming through those five senses. As an excellent example I would refer you to two scenes in Pulp Fiction: the $5 milkshake and the great cup of coffee at Quentin's house. Maybe that's what we're working toward, happiness within our reach. Just like all my friends who decided that success was "out there" and ascribed some geographical distance to it (in relation to their parents, no doubt). They left a city with a lot of job opportunities, and their family, because success is always "out there". I guess I did drive all the way across town to find my career.MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03543269000083131799noreply@blogger.com